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The 4th Amendment is grounded in the idea that it is better that the guilty sometimes go free than that the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

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The 4th Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

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The 4th Amendment is often associated with the idea, deeply embedded in english common law, that a man's home is his castle.

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The 4th Amendment is at it’s core, the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

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The 4th Amendment is a protection to people, not places. What he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

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